Here‘s the (collectively) bizarre list of people you have to choose from. Will it be the Iranian protesters who accomplished nothing? The Somali pirates from the story no one even remembers? The fastest man on earth? The chairman of the Federal Reserve? Don’t stress too much about picking the perfect candidate– Time‘s editors “reserves the right to disagree.”
1. Angela Merkel
2. Barack Obama
3. Ben Bernanke
4. Iran Protesters
5. Olympia Snowe
6. Somali Pirates
7. Stanley McChrystal
8. Steve Jobs
9. Tim Geithner
10. Usain Bolt
Who Will Be The Person Of The Year 2009? [TIME]
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Where the fuck is my name?
CG
@1 I was thinking the same thing.
I had to Google two of those names…and to be honest I think it says more about Time’s list than my general obliviousness to society. At least, that’s what I’m going with.
Jeff Macke
Answer this and you’ll know…
How may times has Obama been on the cover of Time in the last 12-18 months?
At least Jesus, Elvis, and Hitler have finally dropped off the list.
@5 what happened in the last 12-18 months? I can’t put my finger on it.
-forehead slapper
Cro magnon man -Dick Fuld or his legal sidekick -steve berkenfeld (in his mind he is Man of the Century)
There can be only one
Obama is definitely #1 this year, next, and forever.
If you think otherwise you’re racist and need to examine your motives.
Glen Beck!!!
I nominate Bess Levin!
What, no Michael Jackson?
Mantis Toboggan, M.D. for his tireless work on HIV prevention.
Wheres uncle Barney?
@ 7…Exactly, so why ask the stupid question.
5.
Doug Masters
Freddie Mercury
Prime Minister of England, and my cousin Harry, you and me, the fat kid from “What’s Happening!”, The Olsen twins, Natalie Portman, the guy who wrote “Catcher in the Rye,” Nat King Cole, Carrot Top, Jay-Z, Weird Al Yankovic, Harry Potter, if he existed, the whore on the street corner, your mother
Maxine Waters
I second @12′s nomination of Bess Levin. Bess delivered Jeffrey, Zvi, Skip, Shia, Timmy, etc. to our fingertips.
Balloon Boy’s Dad… hellloooooo!! I am surrounded by morons!
I hereby nominate, BLANUS!
John Ed McGee
The Balloon Boy.
The Asian guy that did the vending machine challenge and almost got fired.
Greg Michaels, and the foreclosure picture he so loved.
Is it even a contest? The one man who single-handedly broke the news of the financial crisis, saved the country, and won Bess’ heart: Charles Giovanni Michael Alessandro Paolo Vinnie John Silvio Gasparino.
The cast away sperm stuck on a CITGO bathroom wall, as Dennis Kneale wraps up a session with a transvestite lot lizard aside i-95, on the way home from his new gig hosting You’re a Big Fat Loser II – journalists edition.
Why not Derek Jeter? The NWA Pilots who missed the runway? Joe Biden- no there’s someone who contributed!
There really ought to be the DealBreaker person of the year, with the readers voting (and there has not been a poll here in a while). Some non-exclusive thoughts: charlie steve dennis biff lynn skip greg ars etc.
2nd @12. All in favor say “Aye.”
What kind of drunken fool or dartboard was used to compile this list?
Can we do a DB person of the year?
Nominees:
Jeffrey Chiang
Charlie Gasparino
Dennis Kneale
Skip McGee
Wideclops
TurboTax
Bifford T. Classless
Raj
The Big Guy
[insert more names]
Andrew Hall
@32 Stevie “Spades” Cohen
Ruth Madoff
Laura Blankfein
Muffy Perella
Mancission
Chris Theoharis
Jordan Wimmer
The Noel Stable
Chappy Sinclair USAF(Ret)
Can we vote for a duo?
Amanda’s Druries
35,
Muffie, for sure.
Jay – mee Die – mon
I second the Glen Beck.
Can anyone tell my why Obama is on there? You know skipping over the obvious fact that Time is a left wing liberal rag thats about as irrelevant as Hill Clinton.
Sure they are both out there but no one really cares.
@37/NS I nominate you for db person of the year. AD to present the award at the db Festivus party.
DJ LIBOR
John Meriwether
if we can vote for a duo, it is this class act:
http://www.thisisjuststupid.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/image/marcus%20schrenker.jpg
Jeter, for real!
Jeffrey, if it’s only for DB denizens.
Brian Hunter
@CoveredLong: out of curiosity who did you have to google on that list? everyone on it has been in the news this year.
I vote for Obama! YA. Everything is going so well, and we are all about to get free med care! I think this year instead of Santa i will write obama.
I want inflation, higher taxes and the unions running the country. Oh and maybe, just maybe if I am really good Iran will finalize its quest for a nuclear weapon.
-Danielle “Miss Southern Tier 1983″ Chiesi
-Sen. Christopher Dodd and his good friend, Angelo “the Teflon tan man” Mozillo
-Those people who crashed the White House party
-Ken Lewis
-The New Jersey Nets, for going 0-17 to start the season
What about the “C’mon Son!” guy from Youtube? What, no love?
“those —- never get old”
the Druries for inspiring Handbridge Capital
@32 You forgot me
- Moose Fister
Whoever 4chan decide they want as this years winner I guess.
Shia LaBeouf
@41 I would have to respectfully decline. I have only been reading DB since last September, commenting since May and finally had the balls to register in July.
What do you think this is The Nobel Peace Prize? I dont want to make the Dealbreaker brand a total joke worldwide.
1) Madoff
2) Ken Lewis
3) Obama
4) Gelf
5) LB
6) Kramer
7) katie Corick
8) Ruben
9) Rangle
10) Barney Frank
11) Patterson
Wait is this the list for Asshole of the year?
Right now the Persians have a comfortable lead over Hopey, with SJ close behind.
The Safecracker is in 8th.
Bobby Flay.
-Cat ‘kitty-diving’ Cora
@47/PM – #5 & #7. I don’t follow those two issues closely. Not for any particularly good reason, I just don’t.
@55
You mock, but had he not won that, 55,000 troops might be going to Afghanistan instead of 32,000. He held back.
Hugh Honey and Vic Vinegar – Real Estate Agents
My secretary, for allowing me to pound her in the ass every Tuesday, on the roof of 85 Broad.
For Time: Saint Lloyd (Duh!!!)
For Dealbreaker: Greg’s Mom (Double Duh!!!!)
Al Gore, simply for having the amazing ability to con 90% of the world into believing humans caused global warming. He’d be the best IR girl ever. I bet he could launch at $5B with Shia as the PM.
Elin Nordegren Woods, AKA “Teed Off”
Greg’s Mom and Jeff macke were probably the most prolific posters this year… Chris Theoharis probably generated the most posts per hour for a time there…
Best newly coined phrase/word = handbridge
Col. Nakeer Nakesh
@66 = FAIL
Mr. Goldman Saxs
lifetime achievement nominees:
Mayo
Shamwow
UBS
“to long, didnt read”
CFA vs. MBA
70 brings up a good point, especially since this year the debate has been prettay prettay conclusively settled in favor of the MBA.
I can’t decide between Caruso or Cabrera.
I vote for Nancy Pelosi and her penis Harry Reed
@ 68 = fag
I sincerely think Wideclops wins, hands down. A fuck-me-boot wearing vixen traversing the land, cutting 10.2% of the workforce. Efficient! Servicey!
And the DB Person of The Year goes to…
Danny PANG!
Elin Woods.
@77 – Ironic, because there is no ‘L’ in Woods.
Geithner is Man of the Year.
TurboTax is Software of the Year.
The two will be linked forever, like Desi and Lucy. But nerdier, and without the Spanish yelling.
The Nobama Peace Prize committee
Long-Term Capital Management
UBS Telecom Banking
Golem
Rachel Uchitel
@84 she didnt do it. So put back your Vaseline and turn on Cavuto.
Shhhhh.
@85 – Does it really matter if she did it?
@84
Tiger Woods mistress/es!
@84 I guess it doesnt. She is more qualified to be on the list then Obama. I will give you that.
85
Shit–@87 beat me to it …
Man of the year should be: Oprah, a real man if there ever was 1
http://i44.tinypic.com/11kfp1f.jpg
@ Elin Woods…
High marks to @26 and @37. But final tally must go to thieves who do not hide behind paid politicians, Quant pools, Fed Methamphetamine Liquidity and CNBC Truthiness : Somali Pirates.
Algore – for promoting the biggest scam on earth – Manmade Global Warming. The potential to make billions in carbon trading just went poof!
@70 … CFA!
Levi Johnson’s fluffer.
caia or cfa?
WIDECLOPS
The guy that retrieves Tiger’s errant balls.
Obama won on Jan 1, 2009. The rest of the year is mere formality for Time.
Mark “Appalachian Trail” Sanford
Gelft has dropped to 9th place since yesterday.
The Illinois cheese sandwich, Blago ‘n Burris, are candidates.
A mere 1700 votes for Pirate capital (at 100% importance) would knock the Safecracker down to 10th. Just sayin.’
Actually I just tried and they’re not counting any of my votes.
-102